Jane Hersey

About Jane

Footprinting and Materials Manager

Jane Hersey heads up the Footprinting and Materials Team at BioRegional. BioRegional is an entrepreneurial charity which initiates and delivers practical sustainability solutions, and assists others to achieve sustainability through consultancy, education and informing policy.

Jane leads on technical work at One Planet Products, an award-winning not-for-profit business, which produces sustainability assessments to enable its members to specify environmental construction products and help them build knowledge in sustainability. Jane has also worked with a wide range of partners providing footprinting and material assessments including B&Q, local authorities and housing associations.

Jane specialises in ecological footprinting, which is one of the core tools that BioRegional uses to measure sustainability. She sits on the Global Footprint Network’s Standards Committee which oversees scientific review procedures and standards for footprint calculations. Recently Jane has been working with the London Sustainable Development Commission on a report titled “Capital Consumption: the transition to sustainable consumption and production”. This examines the carbon emissions associated with consumption in London, including consumer goods and the materials involved in building our homes.